Tongue-Tie & Palate Evaluation Procedures
Tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) and palatal distortions can have a profound impact on cranial development, airway function, latching, speech, posture, and neurological integration—especially in infants and young children.
In this targeted online course, you’ll learn how to accurately evaluate and address tongue-tie and palate imbalances using safe, gentle, and effective cranial techniques. You’ll gain insight into how oral and cranial restrictions affect the entire body—and how to support optimal outcomes through chiropractic care.
This training empowers chiropractors to play a critical role in identifying dysfunctions early, guiding parents through care options, and offering structural corrections that often reduce the need for more invasive procedures.
What You’ll Learn
- Detailed evaluation protocols for tongue, lip, and buccal ties
- Visual and manual assessment strategies for high, narrow, or distorted palates
- Step-by-step cranial techniques to support palate expansion and normalize oral function
- How to recognize compensatory patterns affecting the jaw, cranium, and spine
- Guidance for collaboration with other birth and oral health professionals
Resources Provided
- Video class modules
- Evaluation & technique presentations
- Practical demonstrations
- Calls to action (CTAs)
- Complete PDF workbooks
- Full transcriptions of video classes
- Email access to Dr. Rosen & Dr. Watson
Why Take This Course?
- Early identification and correction of tongue-tie and palate issues can prevent long-term problems with feeding, breathing, speech, and neurological development
- Chiropractors are uniquely positioned to identify structural dysfunctions that are often overlooked in traditional screenings
- Hands-on protocols you can implement immediately to support both infants and children in your practice
Who Is This Course For?
Chiropractors who want to:
- Elevate their pediatric care with advanced cranial and oral assessment tools
- Provide non-invasive support to families navigating tethered oral tissue diagnoses
- Integrate functional cranial corrections into a neurologically-based chiropractic practice
Tongue-tie and palate distortions don’t just affect the mouth—they influence the entire cranial and spinal system. This course gives you the tools to assess and address these patterns confidently, improving outcomes for your youngest patients and their families.
Course Contents
12 Modules | 12 CTAs
Class 1 – Cranial Anatomy and Landmarks
Class 2 – Cranial Bone Motion
Class 3 – The Dural Meningeal System and CSF
Class 4 – Anatomy and Movement of the Palate
Class 5 – Evaluation of the Palate
Class 6 – Dural Meningeal Evaluation of the Palate
Class 7 – Palate Distortions and Cranial Bone Relationships
Class 8 – Corrections for Palate Distortions
Class 9 – Sphenobasilar Mechanics and Evaluation
Class 10 – Palate Corrections and Fruit Jar Techniques
Class 11 – Tongue-Tie
Class 12 – Palate Contacts for Intra-Oral Corrections and the Sphenomaxillary Suture
Meet the Instructors
As early as first quarter in chiropractic school they were attracted to each other’s commitment to chiropractic and the pursuit of excellence. Their combined 80 years of personal and clinical and teaching experience, in delivering the chiropractic adjustment is unparalleled in the chiropractic profession. Their international outreach through teaching, writing and lecturing has been a driving force in their personal and professional careers since their first seminar taught together as students, in 1979.
Their years of experience have taught them what works and what does not work to create a successful practice and lifestyle. The more competent and comprehensive your expertise you will find that more patients will seek your services and your practice will grow exponentially.
Feedback From Our Students
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Elizabeth Siefken, DC
“My three takeaways from this program are:
1. In-depth
2. Practical techniques that can be immediately applied
3. Program consistently applies to peds you will see in officeI have more confidence working with young children. I am gaining needed knowledge regarding TOTs patients.
I have a 2-month-old breast feeding patient that had lost significant weight and mother was being pushed to switch to formula. I have been applying my knowledge from Dr. Rosen’s classes and he has gained 9 ounces since starting care 2.5 weeks ago without having to switch to bottle or formula.
I have been sharing Dr. Rosen’s class with my fellow chiropractors and encouraging them to enroll in the online classes!”
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Jeanette Honig, DC
This program was excellent, helping me totally completely understand how to evaluate and treat the palate
This program has made me the expert in my community with tongue, lip, and cheek ties, and both evaluating them and treating them. I have gotten great results.I can share with you many instances where I use the techniques learned in this class to evaluate and treat my patient. I had a little girl who came in to me, and when she came in, she could not even turn her neck. Her mom was having tremendous trouble, breast-feeding her, even after her tongue tie, release. Now the baby is totally breast-feeding and her brachycephaly is totally going away. Her mom also understands that breast-feeding is not where it ends, but where it begins as the brain develops 101% and grows the first year of life.
Yes, I would definitely recommend this course to others.
I have been studying with Dr. Rosen and Dr. Watson for the last 18 years. What can I say about that? You’re extremely great and extremely knowledgeable and the best anybody can hope for.
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Anastasia Lander, DC
“My three takeaways from this program are:
1. Know your contacts
2. It is our job as chiropractors to assist our patients to maintain the greatest level in our patient regardless of whether they choose to have surgical intervention or take the wait and see approach.
3. Fruit jar seriesI have been able to better assess and address patients with tongue-ties.
We had a mom that had had difficulty nursing her infant and gave up on breastfeeding, she had dealt with multiple episodes of mastitis, the child was colicky, and mom was near postpartum depression. Using the techniques we learned in this course, I was able to assist the child especially with expansion of palate and improvement of tongue movement and the child has been sleeping and eating better.
Thank you for putting this course together.”
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